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SPUN GHENILLE AND THE ART 01-" MANUFAGTURINGTHE SAME. No. 332,938.Patented Dec. 22, 1885.

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SPUN GH'ENILLE AND THE ART OF MANUFAUTURING THE-SAME.

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I UNITED STATES PATENT @FFTGE.

WILLIAM EDWVARD OEHRLE AND ALBERT -O. OEHRLE, OF PHILADELPHIA,PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-HALF TO HARTLEY A. CABLES, OF

SAME PLACE.

SPUN CHENILLE AND THE ART OF,MANUFACTURING THE SAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 332,938, dated December22, 1885.

Application filed November 8, 1883. Serial No. 111,218. (No sp cimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM E. OEHRLE and ALBERT O. OEHRLE, residentsof the city and county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Spun Chenille and theArt of ll/Ianufactnring the Same, of which the following is aspecification.

Our invention relates to the manufacture t of spun chenille; and itconsists in improvements therein whereby we are enabled to make the sameof different colors having sharply defined lines of separation.

Round or spun or twisted chenille has been made from yarns or threads ofa single color, and, where multiple colors are required, from yarns dyedof different shades of the same color by immersing the different partsof the yarns in the dye for a shorter or longer time, so that thoseparts immersed the longer time will take up more of the dye-stuff, andconsequent-ly appear as a darker shade than those immersed only a shorttime. These yarns are then spun into chenille, but in the product thelines of demarkation are not clearly defined, one color blending intothe other. \Ve overcome these objections by our invention, whichconsistsin manufacturing chenille by printing the weft or body yarns before connecting them to the chain, the remaining process of manufacturebeing the same as when threads each of a single color are used.

In the drawings, Figure l is a view illustrating the mode of printingthe threads with a fiat block. Fig. 2 is a View illustrating a mode ofprinting with cylinders. Fig. 31'llustrates a thread after beingprinted. Fig. 4. illustrates the chenille complete made from the saidprinted threads. Fig. 5 is an eleva- 0 tion in part in section of achenille-machine.

Figs. 6 and 7 are enlarged cross-sections illustrating the ordinarymanufacture of the chenille.

In the ordinary mode of making spun che- 5 nille the weft-thread iswound around a form of metal, wire, cord, or rope, of the proper sizeand shape, across binding-threads,which are twisted together, with theweft or body threads between, holding the'latter in their place, and atthe same time insuring a cylindrical form to the article.

In Figs. 5 to 7 We have illustrated this mode of manufacture. Theoperating parts of the machine are supported by a framework, and consistof two parallel traveling cords, to w, guide-pulleys for directing saidcords through thetubular support of a bobbin, o, and a revolving arm,it, having an eye, through which passes the silk thread so from thebobbin, so that as the arm revolves the thread is wound round the twocords to w. as shown in Fig. 6. The rotation is imparted to the arm bymeans of a driving-pulley, \(V, and cord 13. The cords to to pass undera guide-roller, q, and over guiderollers r, and round guide-pulleys r,and 6 round a driving-pulley, U. The warp-threads on are carried bybobbins R R, the warpthread a passing over a guide-pulley parallel tothe cords to 10, between and below the same, under roller q,and overthelowerguide-roller r to a spindle, m, on a carrier, V, sliding on arod, p, and the warp-thread a passing from below round the lowerguide-roller r also to the spindle. An endless cord, 0, passes round adriving-pulley, 8, round guide-pulleys s", and round a drum, 8, on thecarrier V, and a band passes round the drum and round a pulley on thespindle m. As the cord 0 moves itcarries the carrier V with it as fastas the feeding of the threads n n will permit; but as the cord 0 travelsfaster than the threads, are fed it rotates the drum 8, and therebyrevolves the spindle m. Above the rollerr is arranged a sharp-bladedknife, k, the edge of which extends between the oords w w. 3

J is the main driving-shaft, carrying pulleys P L, round which bandspass to the pulley U and to a small pulley on the shaft carrying thepulley W. As the cords to w are carried through and from the bohbino thesilk thread 0 is wrapped round the same by the rotation of the arm u, asshown in Fig. 6, the lap of thread inclosing the Warp 12. As the lappedcords pass over the lower roller r the warpthread it is laid below thewinding-thread, as 5 shown in Fig. 6, and as the cords pass below theknife is the lapped threads are severed between the cords and spreadlaterally, as shown in Fig. 7, and the cords to are then lifted from thewarps over the upper roller r, while the warps are drawn forward by thecarriage V and are twisted by the rotation of the spindle in, thusforming the chenille.

To insure a product in which the different colors are sharply separated,we stretch or otherwise place the threads or yarns X, Fig. 1, so thatthey will be supported in proper positions to be operated upon by one ormore printingblocks, whereby each thread is printed at the desiredpoints of the desired colors, thereby producing a thread in which thedifferent colors are separated by distinct lines without any merging ofthe adjacent colors. These threads are then used in the manufacture ofthe chenille in the same manner as those consisting of a singleunil'orin color, said threads being employed as above described, or inany of the usual modes of manutacturing spun chenille, to produce around or twisted figured chenille in which the different colors aresharply defined at a cost but little if anything greater than where thechenille is manufactured of a single color.

Ve have shown in Fig. l a flat printing block as the means used forimparting the desired colors to the threads; but it will be apparentthat the printing of the colors may be elfected by means of revolvingcylinders, as in Fig. 2, or in any other suitable manner.

It will be apparent that by properly proportioning the different colorsupon the threads any desired pattern may be produced on the chenille.

1. The improvement in the art of manufacturing spun chenille hereindescribed, the same consisting in first printing upon the Weft or bodythreads or yarns the desired colors at the proper points and thenconnecting the said wett or body threads to the binding threads or chainas in the usual process of manufacture, substantially as set forth.

2. As a new article of manufacture, spun chenille having weft or bodythreads or yarns with different colors printed thereon, substantially asset forth.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

\VlLLlAM EDWARD OElll-RLE. ALBERT C. OEIEIRLE. Witnesses:

JOHN H. CAHILL, l'lARRY M. W ILLIAMS.

